Moreover, because Republicans still have the weaker grass-roots organisation anyway, they will naturally tend to concentrate more on winning over swing voters.In this, they have several advantages.
To the extent that Israeli politics are merely electoral politics, however, the fight is clearly over swing voters: immigrants from the former Soviet Union and their acculturated children, better educated Mizrahim — traditionalist Jews drawn to orthodoxy but who have traveled the world.
The push and pull over swing voters is particularly intense and of utmost consequence this year because both sides acknowledge that the electoral dynamic has changed significantly, with polls now showing a dead-even race between Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush.
Evans, 40, an attorney who grew up in Ringgold, a small town in Georgia's northwest corner, focused on winning over swing voters and reached out to the old Democratic Party coalition in Georgia, which includes minorities but also moderate whites.
Candidates in tight races realise they cannot win over swing voters on the issue of guns.
But that chumminess could be an asset when it comes to winning over swing voters, if he becomes the nominee.
